2019 – Year of Nasimi
Ilham Aliyev , President of the Republic of Azerbaijan has declared 2019 as a Year of Nasimi, taking into account the 650th anniversary of the great Azerbaijani poet Imadeddin Nasimi in the country as he chaired the meeting of the Cabinet of Ministers dedicated to the results of socioeconomic development of 2018 and objectives for the future.
Imadeddin Nasimi was the great Azerbaijani poet and eminent figure in the poetry and philosophical thought of the Orient. He was the founder of a school of philosophical poetry in the Azerbaijani language.
Known mostly by his pen name Nasimi, he created a number of works in Azerbaijani, Persian and Arabic.
